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New Jersey Devils at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 29, 2024 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
New Jersey Devils 2 30
Buffalo Sabres 5 36

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:00 NJD Max Willman (3) Luke Hughes (32), Chris Tierney (8) 1 - 0
10:31 NJD Jesper Bratt (24) Nico Hischier (35), Timo Meier (22) 2 - 0
2nd Period
00:28 BUF Tage Thompson (23) Unassisted 2 - 1
17:29 BUF Tage Thompson (24) Alex Tuch (31) 2 - 2
3rd Period
15:26 BUF Tage Thompson (25) Rasmus Dahlin (36), Alex Tuch (32) 2 - 3
19:22 BUF JJ Peterka (26) Dylan Cozens (27), Owen Power (23) 2 - 4
19:54 BUF Tage Thompson (26) Henri Jokiharju (13) 2 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
15:04 BUF Bowen Byram Slashing 2
16:38 BUF Alex Tuch Tripping 2
2nd Period
14:41 BUF Dylan Cozens Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
New Jersey Devils 63 46 30 2 2.9 49.6
Buffalo Sabres 61 48 36 5 3.6 50.4

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadNew Jersey Devils ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while New Jersey Devils had.

Expected goals

New Jersey Devils: 2.9 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.6 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndNJD goal, 3:00 of 1st, a 5% chanceNJD goal, 10:31 of 1st, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 0:28 of 2nd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 17:29 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 15:26 of 3rd, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 19:22 of 3rd, a 42% chanceBUF goal, 19:54 of 3rd, a 60% chanceBUF 3.6NJD 2.9

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted.

Where the attempts came from

New Jersey Devils
Buffalo Sabres

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Haula · Jack Hughes · Alexander Holtz14:5364.580.90-0
Timo Meier · Jesper Bratt · Nico Hischier10:3840.943.91-2
Ondrej Palat · Tomas Nosek · Dawson Mercer10:0375.082.10-0
Chris Tierney · Curtis Lazar · Max Willman5:3118.84.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brendan Smith · Simon Nemec16:4333.334.00-0
John Marino · Kevin Bahl15:3944.443.91-2
Nick DeSimone · Luke Hughes13:2862.057.81-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
46 Max Willman C 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 06:27 0.05 4-14 0.07-0.40
63 Jesper Bratt L 1 0 1 -2 0 5 1 18:13 0.53 12-13 0.64-0.70
11 Chris Tierney C 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 07:48 4-17 0.07-0.85
13 Nico Hischier C 0 1 1 -3 0 1 0 19:24 0.22 9-16 0.55-0.76
28 Timo Meier R 0 1 1 -3 0 0 1 19:43 0.01 10-16 0.56-0.76
43 Luke Hughes D 0 1 1 -2 0 4 1 21:33 0.18 32-22 1.10-0.86
6 John Marino D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 17:35 12-17 0.79-1.04
7 Brendan Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 17:30 0.01 9-18 0.25-0.49
7 Kevin Bahl D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 18:41 0.06 14-18 0.83-1.12
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 09:15 4-25 0.01-1.27
26 Alexander Holtz R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 17:46 22-11 1.01-0.18
56 Erik Haula L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 2 22:09 0.44 31-21 1.16-0.74
57 Nick DeSimone D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:45 0.03 31-20 1.10-0.87
71 Simon Nemec D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 23:17 0.21 14-21 0.53-0.55
81 Ondrej Palat L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 13:32 0.44 15-4 0.90-0.14
86 Jack Hughes C 0 0 0 -3 0 5 0 25:31 0.24 28-21 0.90-0.72
91 Dawson Mercer C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:10 0.40 21-8 0.99-0.29
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:18 0.09 13-8 0.65-0.60
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen L 34 31 3 58:23 2.56 -0.44

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · JJ Peterka13:0263.060.83-1
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · Zach Benson8:3166.733.10-0
Zemgus Girgensons · Victor Olofsson · Tyson Jost6:1950.082.50-0
Jordan Greenway · Dylan Cozens · Zach Benson4:5025.044.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Owen Power20:5359.074.12-2
Henri Jokiharju · Bowen Byram13:2245.741.21-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson9:1550.057.30-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
72 Tage Thompson C 4 0 4 3 0 6 5 16:07 0.30 18-14 0.99-1.04
89 Alex Tuch R 0 2 2 2 2 2 1 20:06 0.17 19-15 0.96-0.89
10 JJ Peterka R 1 0 1 3 0 5 1 16:48 0.43 19-11 1.01-0.60
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 18:28 0.07 21-20 1.14-1.25
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 1 1 1 2 2 3 19:35 0.19 22-23 0.58-1.04
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 28:51 0.09 26-18 1.13-0.59
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 1 0 2 5 27:01 0.01 26-21 1.10-0.51
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:44 0.07 15-15 0.44-0.43
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 18:19 0.07 16-26 0.65-1.32
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 08:49 0.03 12-11 0.59-0.18
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11:00 6-9 0.31-0.17
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 17:06 0.04 19-12 0.41-0.62
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 18:21 0.16 18-23 0.87-1.46
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 07:07 0.43 10-10 0.56-0.17
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 11:52 0.20 7-13 0.34-0.61
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 15:50 0.23 14-17 0.40-0.60
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:52 12-15 0.29-0.44
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 08:04 0.05 10-12 0.57-0.21
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
27 Devon Levi W 30 28 2 60:00 2.95 +0.95